Says President Nero while attempting to grab a nearby fiddle with his tiny, tiny bruised hands.

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    Last election he said if he wasn’t elected then we would be at war with Iran, gas prices would skyrocket, groceries would be unaffordable, and masked police would be patrolling the streets.

    He literally projected exactly what he ended up doing, as is tradition.

    Two political parties are supposed to work together for the benefit of everyone, the second a politician tries to divide the country they need to be jailed, or at the very least removed from politics. There is no place for this toxicity in a prosperous country.

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    This is fucking insane. I don’t think the POTUS should be threatening every single citizen of the country like that.

    I also don’t think a rapist, pedophile, conman, felon, grifter, old ass pudding brain should be POTUS.

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    Trump warns…

    “If Obama wins, the country will burn and be lost to communism” Obama serves two terms in a row, no burning and still waiting for “communism”

    “If Biden wins, the country will burn and be lost to communism” Biden wins, still no burning (except Jan.6) or “communism”

    “If Kamala wins the country will burn and be lost to communism” Trump wins and we watch him burn and loot the country in 4K HDR 360fps as fascism rolls in

    Do republicuck magatards ever learn?

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      they’re excuses, not justifications. if a phrase lets them pretend a fig leaf of sense they’ll beat that dead horse worse than SNL

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      These morons are still stuck on its Adam and Eve not Adam and Steeve!

      Honesty I used to think Republicans just have different priorities, but ever since W I’ve come to understand they aren’t noble savages… They are just extremely stupid and hateful people.

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      The message appeals to those who are NOT going to learn and are like puppets who simply react to their carefully curated x, Facebook, ticktoc, Instagram, and, of course, truth social feeds.

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      No, in fact, they actively hate education, science, reading, and medicine. So I don’t think that they even CAN learn beyond simple cause/effect relationships like a pigeon

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      Why do you think the Democrats are any different?

      “If Biden wins, we’ll get higher minimum wage”

      “If Obama wins, we’ll get universal healthcare!”

      “If Clinton wins, we’ll get universal healthcare!”

      Suckers gonna suck

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        If you can’t tell the difference between the Obama/Biden admin and Trump then please tell us what’s your favourite colour of crayon to eat

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    This America isn’t worth preserving, if it is a reflection of Trump and his kindred. I do not wish to live the rest of my life in a nation that has been consumed by evil.

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      I like to imagine Trump’s behavior has opened the door to sweeping changes across the board. I feel like administrations opted for smaller, less impactful in the near term changes, and Trump, to his very limited credit, made sweeping changes rapidly. So let’s see that in the other direction. He’s had SCOTUS support some of his orders, so let’s use them as examples for changes in the opposite direction.

      Then let’s close all the loopholes.

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        Even in the ideal liberal world where Republicans show up and take advantage of loopholes, and then Democrats take power and patch them all, fundamentally this allows a ratcheting effect if Democrats only ever fix and never utilize the power themselves. I’d like to see a truth and reconciliation period similar to South Africa where we take a hard look at ourselves as a nation and address the bigotry that leads us to become such a pariah, both to each other and globally. We can then address the shared goals of bringing back American jobs from a standpoint of honesty at what took them in the first place, and many of the other things that supposedly fueled the collapse of our moral framework. Unfortunately I don’t see a world where any party leaders would engage in this behavior, because moving on is all their donors ever want to do. You don’t need to dig for long to find billionaires meddling, and their favorite time to meddle is in democratic primaries, something the leadership very much wants them to keep doing.

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    The higher prices are directly from his tariffs and war and people should know that. Last time, however, prices were not Biden’s fault and economy had recovered better than most places, but the people wrongly blamed Dems as they were instructed to and ignored all the warnings. One relief check went out during his time and two from orange, if you want to try that nonsense. They won’t really care though or understand this, and mindlessly swing back and forth, other than the tribal ones that stick with maga regardless of the damage, and they’re proud to pay more and all the suffering too!

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    If it must burn to be renewed then it must burn. No different than a sick redwood. I don’t think it’ll burn or it quite needs to, but it needs to be renewed even if it takes burning to do it

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      Agreed. People need to accept that the nation must fall before we, as people, can rise again. I do not know what the big deal is with moving on from something that isn’t working for anyone. It isn’t working for anyone except a handful of people and the entire world is so exhausted of the US.

      What’s even more shocking to me is that we have not yet even come to terms with the reality that we are four distinct regions and each region is preventing the other from succeeding in their own way. Northeast, Texas through Florida, the west and the mid-west. It’s beyond obvious we are four different countries. Most land masses this size have much smaller countries and ours is simply unmanageable.

      It will never recover. It can only become something else.

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        I don’t think burning is inherently necessary, that it means the complete destruction of the country, or that splitting is wise. I’m in the camp of we need to prosecute and repair what’s broken.

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        The nation doesn’t have to fall. The Empire does. The American Empire needs to realize its over, and pull back. Its current process of trying to exert its will by controlling the fossil fuels needs to cease. The Russian embargo, Venezuela, The Straight of Hormuz are all plays at controlling the oil market. Its the last attempt at keeping power, and it will fail.

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    Peaceful protest won’t stop them from staying in power. We, as a people, have had all the warning for what’s coming, and yet I don’t know of anyone suggesting a realistic, practical plan to combat the theft of power that’s going to take place.

    Any Federal politician who actually cares should be giving public statements about what responses will occur if election results are denied at various levels, should be inviting international observation, should be responding to voter expungement, should prepare responses in case of ICE intervention at polling places, etc.

    And everyday people… we should be like the French: angry, motivated, and ready to take the kids gloves off. People should be prepared to be arrested, prepared to go on strike, and prepared to be disruptive.

    If any offices are stolen, there should be fires and barricades.

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      Republicans don’t need to “seize power”, nor do they want to (in my opinion).

      Democrats will win, the Republicans count on it. They’re a tag team. One is the heel, the other is the face.

      Answer me this… if the Democrats are truly “the good guys” why can’t they ever roll back Republican changes? Every term, they can’t manage to reverse the vast majority of Republican tax cuts (for one example).

      Amazon, Tesla, JP Morgan, et al always coincidentally gets what they want.

      Our political system is fundamentally deceptive and has been corporate owned for decades.

      Re the French, they are in a country that’s smaller than one US state with four times the population density. Getting thousands together is much, much more difficult, and it won’t happen in most of the country, just key cities (like NYC and LA).

      All of this talk of revolution is what the Democrats are for. They’re a release valve. The Republicans won’t seize power and bite the hand that feeds them, there’s enough money for bOtH sIdEs to get rich, win or lose, they both get a billion dollars an election.

      They won’t get that money so easily if there are no elections. It’s a massive money laundering scheme, and they don’t even have to hide it.

      We’ll see in a couple weeks.

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        There’s no need to riot in some rural shithole with 30 people. The big cities are all that matters, that’s where the money is, where it hurts. That is not an excuse not to riot.

        I get it, it’s harder to meet up for a big riot in NYC, when living in bumfuck nowhere, but the people in those dense areas should already be more than enough, if they commit. The ones in the nowheres of the country can show their dissent other ways, still, or find a closer riot nearby.

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      Peaceful shutdown, if enough do it in the cities, enough to bring the wheels of production to a halt and sustained for a week or two (which is hardly enough time to starve or be evicted) will have the Houses running for impeachment so fast it might set a new benchmark on what is the highest achievable speed.